Outage in Let's Encrypt
Staging: Issuance stopped for incident drill
Resolved Major
March 16, 2026 - Started about 1 month ago
- Lasted about 3 hours
Incident Report
Summary AI Generated
Let's Encrypt conducted a planned incident drill that required stopping certificate issuance on their staging environment for compliance obligations, lasting 3.1 hours. The acme-staging-v02.api.letsencrypt.org staging service was affected, with issuance being disabled twice during the drill period. Service was restored with authorizations and preexisting orders cleared, requiring users to retry issuance with new orders if they encountered errors.
To fulfill our required compliance obligations, we are performing an incident drill. During this drill, we are stopping issuance from staging.
Components affected
Let's Encrypt acme-staging-v02.api.letsencrypt.org (Staging)Trusted by 1,000+ teams
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about 1 month ago - at 03/16/2026 05:36PM
To fulfill our required compliance obligations, we are performing an incident drill. During this drill, we are stopping issuance from staging.
about 1 month ago - at 03/16/2026 06:05PM
We are resuming issuance. As part of our drill, we have dropped authorizations prior to the beginning of the drill. If you receive an error related to missing authorizations, retry issuance.
about 1 month ago - at 03/16/2026 06:05PM
We are resuming issuance. As part of our drill, we have dropped authorizations prior to the beginning of the drill. If you receive an error related to missing authorizations, retry issuance.
about 1 month ago - at 03/16/2026 06:24PM
We are disabling staging issuance again for our incident drill.
about 1 month ago - at 03/16/2026 07:17PM
We are resuming issuance. As part of our drill, we have expired all preexisting orders. If you receive an error, retry issuance with a new order.
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